Here’s an article from News.com which says that Acer is moving into the handheld and set-top box markets. Acer is also working on a SmartPhone which will be able to synchronize with standard software, such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.

dotMail, the hosted mail service from dotOne Corporation, now includes hosting of proprietary messaging systems. Companies can now choose dotOne to host their Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Notes or cc:Mail system. dotMail also provides users of hosted proprietary systems with access to the full range of dotOne messaging services, including bi-directional faxing, paging, X.400, telex, directory synchronization, virus scanning, access control, and spam control.

Information Week has this report from Microsoft’s TechEd conference. At the conference, Microsoft gave attendees a sneak preview of the next version of Exchange, code named Platinum. Platinum promises the first step toward fulfillment of Microsoft’s Storage+ unified data store model, a technology called Web Store.

Lotus’ Web site posted this story about Markus Anderson, President of Agren Reporting & Video. The story details how Anderson deployed Lotus Notes and, by doing so, made his company profitable.

A rumor concerning the U.S. Postal Service is being circulated on Internet e-mail. The e-mail message claims that a "Congressman Schnell" has introduced "Bill 602P" to allow the federal government to impose a 5-cent surcharge on each e-mail message delivered over the Internet. Here’s the U.S. Postal Service’s response to this.

Information Week has this article about how Lotus Notes and Domino became an enterprise application platform, combining aspects of Web application servers, databases, and messaging servers.

Here’s an article from Windows Magazine which tells you how you can build your own intranet.

Thanks to DominoPower’s Senior Technical Editor Richard Echeandia for letting us know that Jeff Papows, President and CEO of Lotus, will participate in an online chat. The chat will be on Tuesday, June 1, at 2:00 PM ET.

PC World reports that IBM’s Garry Norris will testify that Microsoft Vice President Joachim Kempin threatened to hike the price of Windows or withhold the operating system entirely to IBM because IBM promoted rival products from its subsidiary Lotus Development.

Due to the Memorial Day holiday, news will not be posted on Monday. We’ll be back on Tuesday, June 1